Carter Ford Aides Reach Tentative Debate Agreement
Federal election officials may finance a series of presidential debates beginning in September. Carter said both campaigns agreed on a three debate, 75 minute format patterned after the League of Women Voters. He welcomed minor party participation but warned it could ruin the format.
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Carter
Ford
Washington
League of Women Voters
Associated Press
Jimmy Carter
American Independent Party
Lester Maddox
Bate
White House
Vail
Colo
Yellowstone
Plains
Park Service
Conferees Move To Extend 1976 Tax Cuts Through 1977
Senate and House conferees agreed to extend the individual tax cuts through 1977, boosting annual relief to about 180 dollars for a typical family of four on 15 000 dollars income and preserving payroll withholding rate freezes through Sept. 1. They also set permanent the raised standard deductions of 1700 for singles and 2100 for joint filers, with maximums of 2400 and 2800 respectively. The package, part of a broader tax revision, aims to curb recession effects while final action awaits a compromise bill next month.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Showers Continue Across Southwest Oklahoma
Thunderstorms rolled through Southwest Oklahoma over the weekend and kept showers and a 30 percent rain chance through Tuesday. Temperatures will reach upper 80s to around 90, with easterly winds 6 to 12 mph. Rain totals varied from 1.41 inches at Altus AFB to .04 inch at Meers, impacting Lawton area lakes and statewide August totals.
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Oklahoma
National Weather Service
Red River
Altus
Weatherford
Altus Air Force Base
Hobart
Lawton
Lawtonka
Lake Lawtonka
Lake Ellsworth
Apache
Ellsworth
Meers
Rifleman Surrenders After 12 Hour Siege
In Abilene Texas a rifleman who held police at bay for more than 12 hours surrendered early today. John J Allen was taken into custody shortly before 730 am. A witness said he left unarmed after tear gas. Neville Ray King 16 died from a head wound after being shot while passing the house.
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Abilene. Tex
Allen
John Bostick
Neville Ray King
Bill
Explosion at Hanford facility injures worker and contaminates others
A chemical explosion at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland Washington injured one worker and contaminated eight to ten others with radioactivity. ARCO officials said the blast happened in a recovery vessel and that decontamination is underway for affected employees.
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Richland
Wash
Hanford
Atlantic Richfield Hanford Co
ARCO
Hal Lindberg
Lindberg
Judy Friedrichs
Energy Research and Development Administration
Aad Erda
Hanford Environmental Health Foundation
Taiwan Reprocessing Spent Fuel Raises Bomb Risk Concerns
A Ford official says Taiwan secretly reprocesses spent uranium fuel but lacks proof of weapon construction plans. He notes the activity is undesirable and may inch Taiwan toward a bomb, yet no formal confirmation of weapons intent exists. The matter may affect future U.S. nuclear exports to Taiwan.
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Taiwan
Washington
Ford Administration
U.S
Taipei
Chiang Ching-kuo
United States
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Energy Research and Development Administration
Arms Control Agency
ERDA
OSBI Probes Hanging of Inmate in County Jail
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation opened a probe into the Sunday hanging death of Comanche County jail inmate Pvt. Greg Earl Carman. He was found by Jailer David Brinsen at about 5 am in a maximum security cell and is believed to have hanged himself with a strip of blanket. Carman had pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter for the May 22 beating death of Richard Warren Carr in Lawton. He had been charged with second degree murder earlier and was returned to custody after a mental examination at Western State Hospital Fort Supply.
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Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
Comanche County
David Brinsen
Greg Earl Carman
Bob Williams
Carman
OSBI
Williams
Dist
J. Winston Raburn
Richard Warren Carr
Lawton
Carr
Ferris Avenue
Tomlinson Junior High School
Western State Hospital
Fort Supply
Fort Sillman
City’s Old Library Gets Shrine Status
Lawton's 55 year old Carnegie Library building has been designated a national monument and placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Citizens led by Mrs. Walter Parks have fought since April 1975 to prevent demolition amid a potential post office expansion and urged preservation.
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Lawton
Walter Parks
U.S
Dewey Bartlett
Henry Bellman
Carnegie Library
Mrs. Parks
Mary Wolverton
Jennie L. McCutcheon
Jack Lee
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California
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Wyo
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Bill Allen
Allens
Dallas
Wise
John Allen
Texas
Bill Alien
Veterans Administration
Young King
State Department
India
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